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Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Works, last black-letter edition, 1687.
Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Works, last black-letter edition, 1687.
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Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Works, largely printed in black letter, double column, engraved portrait frontispiece, c1 (mis-signed d1) with large woodcut arms on recto, 7-line cancel slip pasted over bottom right-hand stanza on p. 42, later panelled calf, rebacked, corners worn, [Wing C3736; Pforzheimer 179], folio, 1687.

⁂ "This is the last black-letter edition and is, except for the then recently discovered conclusions of the Cook's and Squire's Tales, verso [4S2], a reprint of the 1602 edition .. without any additions" (Pforzheimer).

Provenance: William Benson (bookplate and pencil name on front free endpaper).
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Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Works, last black-letter edition, 1687.

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